Def Leppard are the kings of 80s rock, hands-down. They may not be the "heaviest" (they never pretended to call themselves "heavy metal," after all) or the grungiest; their music is for people who realize that screaming Satanic references for four and a half minutes a good rock song does not make.

Both of their 80s albums, Pyromania and Hysteria, are absolute classics. Their 1992 album Adrenalize doesn't rock nearly as much as their previous epics, but the tunes are still beautiful and it's still a damn fine record.

Yeah I cant stand it when people try to classify them as metal, they aren't anything near metal. One of the things I like best abou them is how intricate alot of their songs and arrangments are. It's really cool to sit there and really listen to all the little things they do on each track, especially Hysteria.

Yeah I cant stand it when people try to classify them as metal, they aren't anything near metal.

I think the last of their albums that could be classified as "heavy metal" or "metal" was indeed Pyromania. By Hysteria, they'd practically solidified their place among the kings of "stadium rock" or "heavy rock."

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Originally Posted by Michi heavenly

One of the things I like best abou them is how intricate alot of their songs and arrangments are. It's really cool to sit there and really listen to all the little things they do on each track, especially Hysteria.

Ditto.

My favourite Def Leppard songs are probably...

Billy's Got a Gun
Die Hard the Hunter
Comin' Under Fire
Animal
Hysteria
Armageddon It
Love and Affection
Tear it Down
Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)

If i-Tunes counts, I bought Meg & Dia - Something Real a week ago as well as their three other misc. tracks. If i-Tunes doesn't count, then I'm planning to buy the CD soon as the quality of the tracks is somewhat less perfect than the promo tracks I've heard on myspace.com/meganddia. It would only be wasting money if I didn't like them that much. ^_^

My last cd purchases were Cascada-Everytime We Touch & Linkin Park-Minutes to Midnight...I know, how random: euro dance music and whatever Linkin Park is classified as (I buy my music @ Best Buy & they had it under Rock)